Discord's CEO and Co-Founder Is Stepping Down (engadget.com) 12
Discord CEO and co-founder Jason Citron is stepping down from his leadership role at the company and being replaced by Humam Sakhnini, a former executive from Activision Blizzard. "Citron will remain on Discord's board of directors, and fellow co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy will continue acting as the company's chief technology officer," notes Engadget. From the report: There's an important financial context to Citron's move. The New York Times reported in March that Discord was meeting with investors to take the company public. Sakhnini has experience acting as a leader of a public company. He was also the President of King Digital -- the creator of Candy Crush and other popular mobile games -- after the company was acquired by Activision Blizzard. A veteran executive could be a natural fit to usher Discord to an IPO. Citron didn't deny the plan when VentureBeat asked if the company would go public: "As you can imagine, hiring someone like Humam is a step in that direction." "From the very beginning, our mission has been about bringing people together around games," Citron said in a statement. "It's a mission I've dedicated my career to, and I'm confident that passing the torch to Humam is the right evolution for Discord's future." While initially pitched as a way to talk to friend's before, during and after playing games, Discord has morphed into a much larger and more general social platform, serving "more than 200 million monthly active users worldwide," the company says.
IPO? Bah (Score:5, Insightful)
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Maybe Google+ Hangouts could takeo...oh wait, never mind.
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(ducks)
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> (ducks)
(geese)
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Probably back to Team Speak, since they're actually trying to go for Discord-like features in the next version. Looks like it will be matrix-based...
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Hopefully something that isn't a bloated Electron-based app full of crap and just be a lightweight group communication client.
But I guess there's no way to monetize that.
Let the enshitification begin. (Score:3)
At this point we should just go back to forums and message boards.
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Begin? Have you used Discord in the last year?!
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Source: me. Been there, done that.
Re: Let the enshitification begin. (Score:1)
Discord has been losing money ... (Score:3)
... since the beginning. Not sure if they will be able to turn that around, although they are very likely to push for that now.
Prepare moving your Discord servers to FOSS solutions like Web BBs with chat or blogs.
I went back to IRC (Score:1)
Turns out that the 1994 solution was the best solution.